IT might be obvious to some now, that I am not working very hard today...... I am the only one in from IT today.... it's a slow day with people "relaxing" their way back in to the work-rhythm after the long weekend.... so this is my 3rd post in the water cooler already as my plan is to do nothing more than exsiting tickets, new break/fix tickets, and monitor the spam filter......

I'm "relaxing" my way back in to the rhythm as well.....

So this long weekend (yesterday) we started our garden and got the soil ready, made a fence around it, planted some stuff from seed... trimmed a lot of the hedges, and then had a big BBQ with friends..... home made burgers (THE BEST!), all fresh "fixins" with tomatoes, lettuce, baby spinach, sprouts..... a wicked salad with all the twigs and bark mmmmmm, potato salad, french bread and spinach dip, a snack platter of veggies and chips.... and BBQ corn on the cob....... mmmmmmmmmmmmmmm and a perfect cheesecake to top it off

13 giant burgers for 8 people... no one could eat two so we have plenty of leftovers.... (pictured below)

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the garden.. all 'tilled and prepped... what an improvement.... I paid the 10 year old to remove the crap from the garden..... I paid him $1 per pound .... he got 17.5 lbs of rocks/dead plants/garbage.... was a good day for him too... and the garden is all the better for it... (hehehehe he thinks he can make that every day, not realizing there is only a finite amount of rocks to be removed)

the garden.. all 'tilled and prepped... what an improvement.... I paid the 10 year old to remove the crap from the garden..... I paid him $1 per pound .... he got 17.5 lbs of rocks/dead plants/garbage.... was a good day for him too... and the garden is all the better for it... (hehehehe he thinks he can make that every day, not realizing there is only a finite amount of rocks to be removed)

Perhaps this is only a Utah thing, but wait and see, every year will find you with a fresh crop of rocks just waiting to bend your tiller tines.

No, I don't know where they come from either. ;-)

Oh, and looks like a great time, if I may say so. Congrats on the new(ish) house.

okay... really lastly.... WTF is with your file upload system.... I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again, it is bunk.. and there is something wrong with it's math..... If your limit is 500KB how do you explain the following, when your own system is reporting files as larger than they are, as well as larger than the 500KB limit????????????????

the garden.. all 'tilled and prepped... what an improvement.... I paid the 10 year old to remove the crap from the garden..... I paid him $1 per pound .... he got 17.5 lbs of rocks/dead plants/garbage.... was a good day for him too... and the garden is all the better for it... (hehehehe he thinks he can make that every day, not realizing there is only a finite amount of rocks to be removed)

Perhaps this is only a Utah thing, but wait and see, every year will find you with a fresh crop of rocks just waiting to bend your tiller tines.

No, I don't know where they come from either. ;-)

Oh, and looks like a great time, if I may say so. Congrats on the new(ish) house.

you are right there will be more rocks, the more we work the soil........ but he thinks he can go out there and make $20/hour EVERY hour lol...... I won't burst his bubble just yet..... $1/lb was a great way to get the kid interested in doing some work.... as little or as much as he wanted. (cheap labour :) )

okay... really lastly.... WTF is with your file upload system.... I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again, it is bunk.. and there is something wrong with it's math..... If your limit is 500KB how do you explain the following, when your own system is reporting files as larger than they are, as well as larger than the 500KB limit????????????????

It charged you extra, it had to inspect the food qualiy. And maybe a little import tax.

Kelly, sounds like you had a great May24 Holiday!! The burgers look delish, and now I am soooooo hungry!!!

the burgers are my "secret" recipe..... usually made in to patties by hand by using a "baseball" sized chunk and flipping them back and forth between hands.... this time I used the lid of one of our containers to shape them, and make them all the same sized (it worked great).....

okay... really lastly.... WTF is with your file upload system.... I've mentioned it before and I'll mention it again, it is bunk.. and there is something wrong with it's math..... If your limit is 500KB how do you explain the following, when your own system is reporting files as larger than they are, as well as larger than the 500KB limit????????????????

It charged you extra, it had to inspect the food qualiy. And maybe a little import tax.

I just noticed that the sizes were almost always double what they report on my local drive..... then I thought (since I did not set this PC up), maybe they had drive compression on my machine enabled making it show smaller file sizes locally..... (but that isnt the case).

Nice tip, I think I'll steal that one next time we make burgers! We have not had great luck making burgers, either in the skillet or grilling. We are spoiled by Smashburger!

My secret ingredients aren't so secret..... I use Lea & Perrins ... with that amount of ground beef I might have used between and 8th of a cup, maybe up as much as a 1/4 cup....... then for binding agents, also with that much ground beef, I used 3 eggs..... and we use "crackers" (plain unsalted type soup crackers) mashed up in the burger mix....(maybe a dozen or 15) then just your normal spices you like..... these were big so they were about 12 minutes a side and came out delicious. Also a touch of Budweiser BBQ sauce right in the mix, before cooking... not much, maybe a cup... mmmmmmmmmmmm

I was under the impression that Canada was part of America - North America to be exact :-)

And it looks like you had a great weekend (or at least a great BBQ). I need to acquire a grill and somewhere to store it over the winter - maybe I'll get that small shed yet. Much like you Canadians, we get enough nasty weather over the winter to at least partially curtail my winter grilling. When we moved down here from where I worked at IBM, we left the grill behind, expecting I'd get a new one. I've been here over a year and still haven't replaced it...